Freedom House interim President Nicole Bibbins Sedaca shares thoughts on democratic developments and Freedom House’s work in 2024.

While headlines tend to focus on the assassination of high-profile dissidents living in exile, the targeting of groups of diaspora members is no less troubling. In Thailand, the deportation of over ...

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...

Join us for a Twitter Space focused on uncovering Belarus’s role in Russia’s efforts to displace, indoctrinate, and militarize children from occupied Ukraine. Freedom House's Ukraine Program Director ...

WASHINGTON—In response to the recent passing of former Freedom House trustee Morton Abramowitz, the organization’s interim president, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, issued the following statement: “There have ...

Dictators see independent media as an existential threat, so it’s no surprise that Belarus’s Alyaksandr Lukashenka wants to crush media freedom in his country.What is surprising is the extent to which ...

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A 27 percent year-on-year increase in dissent events. CDM logged 937 dissent events in the third quarter of 2024, a 27 percent increase over the same period in 2023. The majority of these protests are ...